Leung Chun-ying to survive confidence vote but poll rating dips again
Today's confidence vote likely to fail but HKU poll finds leader as unpopular as ever
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is likely to win a confidence vote today despite seeing his overall popularity rating stay below 50 points for the seventh consecutive month.
A University of Hong Kong poll conducted earlier this month put his latest rating at 48.1 points, 1.3 points lower than the rating the same source gave him in September.
Civic Party lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki, who filed the motion, said its backers did not expect to win the vote despite the fact that the city had been "torn apart" since Leung took office.
Only 31 per cent of the 1,009 participants in the HKU poll said they supported Leung as the city's leader, while 55 per cent disapproved of him - an increase of 6 percentage points from last month's poll.
Health chief Dr Ko Wing-man remained the most popular minister, with 77 per cent support. Among the three principal officials, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor enjoyed the highest overall rating at 62 points, a slight drop of 1.2 points from September.
Education minister Eddie Ng Hak-kim fared less well with just 19 per cent support - a drop of 6 percentage points.
